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Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides James Boswell John Wilson Croker. PREFACE то THIS EDITION . IT were superfluous to expatiate on the merits , at least as a source of amusement , of Boswell's LIFE OF JOHNSON . Whatever doubts ...
Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides James Boswell John Wilson Croker. PREFACE то THIS EDITION . IT were superfluous to expatiate on the merits , at least as a source of amusement , of Boswell's LIFE OF JOHNSON . Whatever doubts ...
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... Boswell wrote are already ob- scure to the best informed , and wholly forgotten by the rest of mankind 1 . For instance , when he relates ( vol . i . p . 196. ) that a " great personage " called the English Divines of the sixteenth and ...
... Boswell wrote are already ob- scure to the best informed , and wholly forgotten by the rest of mankind 1 . For instance , when he relates ( vol . i . p . 196. ) that a " great personage " called the English Divines of the sixteenth and ...
Pagina vii
... Boswell's circumlocutory designations . It will be seen in the course of this work , that several of them have become so obscure that even the surviving mem- bers of the Johnsonian society are unable to recollect who were meant , and it ...
... Boswell's circumlocutory designations . It will be seen in the course of this work , that several of them have become so obscure that even the surviving mem- bers of the Johnsonian society are unable to recollect who were meant , and it ...
Pagina viii
... Boswell , the editor determined to under- take the work — believing that , however ill he might perform it , he should still do it better than , twenty years hence , it could be done by any diligence of re- search or any felicity of ...
... Boswell , the editor determined to under- take the work — believing that , however ill he might perform it , he should still do it better than , twenty years hence , it could be done by any diligence of re- search or any felicity of ...
Pagina ix
... Boswell himself ; who in his original edition inserted , and in his subsequent editions continued to add , letters , memoranda ' , notes , and anecdotes collected from every quarter ; but the appearance of his work was so long delayed ...
... Boswell himself ; who in his original edition inserted , and in his subsequent editions continued to add , letters , memoranda ' , notes , and anecdotes collected from every quarter ; but the appearance of his work was so long delayed ...
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